<div dir="ltr">Great read. Thank you for all you have done Mark.<div>So many of us have saved time, money and mostly frustration in solving our vehicle problems because of these lists, mostly LBC. I have not given my Sprite attention in a while and I must say April 11th set many of us back. I will do my best to become more active in the Spridget list serve as my little Sprite is ready for attention and I'm ready to attend : )</div><div>Safety fast,</div><div>Linda</div><div>62 California Sprite "Pinky"</div><div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, May 18, 2025 at 2:40 PM Charlie Shelden via Spridgets <<a href="mailto:spridgets@autox.team.net">spridgets@autox.team.net</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">I’m<br>
Just catching up on email. While I don’t have a running spridget. I do still have a 74 MG and a 59 Sprite I got from David Oliver in upstate New York Always wondered what happened to his cars after he passed. . <br>
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Mark thank you for keeping his going. I believe I joined in 2000. Met several of you. Rick Fisk glad to see you are still kicking! <br>
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> On Apr 15, 2025, at 9:26 PM, Rick Fisk via Spridgets <<a href="mailto:spridgets@autox.team.net" target="_blank">spridgets@autox.team.net</a>> wrote:<br>
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> Mark, 34 years is incredible! Thank you! This list and the people on it have meant a bunch to me over the years. I just wish the list was more active these days. Faceplant is a joke. The car forums I frequent are fine and enjoyable, but don't have the feeling of community like the list used to have. Guess we're getting old and too busy with other things. <br>
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>> On Apr 11, 2025, at 10:54 PM, Mark Bradakis via Spridgets <<a href="mailto:spridgets@autox.team.net" target="_blank">spridgets@autox.team.net</a>> wrote:<br>
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>> On April 11th, 1991, <a href="http://team.net" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">team.net</a> became a new domain. 34 years ago, how time flies! Back then it was just two lists, autox and british-cars. My, things have changed. At its peak, there were 77 lists, I think, stemming from splitting the british-cars list into Triumph, MG, Healey, etc lists. And shop-talk and the-local and Datsun roadsters and Bricklin and ... you get the idea.<br>
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>> While Team Net is no longer the only show in town as it was back in the early days, there are still just over 30 lists. About half a dozen of these see daily, or almost daily, traffic. Some see hardly any use at all. Back in the mid nineties, the autox list would see like a thousand messages in August, leading up to the Nationals. I think the one and only year I attended, '97, about 2/3rds of the entrants were on Team Net. Lost track of how many stickers I sold. Still have a few somewhere in my office.<br>
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